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Looking at how things are going over in Europe lately.. it's looking like this narrative of Canada as the sole holdout in a Western world consumed with nationalism and racism is not really a true narrative.

It's increasingly looking like right-wing populists are not going to be taking over Europe after all. Marine Le Pen has been losing ground considerably and polls show that in basically any second-round matchup she's massively behind.. instead, it's appearing increasingly likely that Emmanuel Macron, who is actually rather Trudeau-like (young, relatively inexperienced, very popular amongst youth, promising reform, championing multiculturalism and globalism), is going to be France's next president.

Similarly, in Germany the social democrats have gained considerably in the polls in the last few months and it's appearing likely that Angela Merkel could be replaced as Chancellor by Martin Schulz, a leftist who is massively pro-EU and has campaigned on even closer integration of European nations.